El Shafee Elsheikh

El Shafee Elsheikh (1989-) was an Islamic State executioner who was called "George" by IS hostages due to his British accent and his affiliation with "The Beatles" terrorist cell.

Biography
El Shafee Elsheikh was born in 1989 in Sudan to a Sunni Muslim family, and his family emigrated to the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Elsheikh worked as a fairground mechanic in London, where his family lived, but he befriended a fellow Muslim whose father advocated jihad. Elsheikh was radicalized while listening to a CD of radical Islamist sermons from the preacher Hani al-Sibai, and he decided to become an Islamic State fighter with his younger brother Mahmoud after their older brother Khalid was imprisoned. Mahmoud, only seventeen, was killed in action during the Syrian Civil War. El Shafee became an executioner, and he had two wives and two young children while fighting for ISIS. In late 2014 and 2015, he became infamous due to being counted among "The Beatles", a group of British Islamists who had been sent to guard IS hostages. He led The Beatles, and he repeated sections of the Quran and publicly promoted IS' extremist views.